The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1887-04-21
Literary News and Notes.

Colonel John Hay will have a poem in the
May Century. entitled Israel" with three il
Illustrations by Kenyon Cox.
The American Magazine has been placed in
the editorial charge of William c. Wychoif. for
several years a member of the staff of The New
York Tribune. and more recently Secretary Of
the silk Association Of America.
Professor ". o. Atwater of Wesleyan Uni
vcr~ty will begin a series of Illustrated articles
On The themi>try and Economy of Food" in
the May Century. The design is to present
this important branch of the labor question in
such popular form 10 make the series OF
practical use in daily life.
The April Pan~y embraces i'll ii, contents
stories. poems, sketches historical and biograph-
ical teonling with present truths and pulls
in " it'll life 4, aited 10 the needs of its every
reader The Easter poem. well rs the pap
IT On ''Some Remarkable Women are of i'm
por;ance and interest The former As adapted
10Y recitation. and the latter being a sketch
ot Francis T.. Willard with good portrait.
illustrated throughout. @l.o0 year. Boston
Ii. Lothrop Company.
The American MAGAZINE" the successor OF
The BROOKLYN Magazine.' offers its readers
many pleasant papers. In their general char
acter they resemble those " hich Tile Maihat-
I n III il best days gayc to the public. Mr..
I. /. VI hite'> article on the National Senate is.
like all his work. careful and Interesting: Mr..
Rden@ gives many agreeable details Of liter
aly life in Boston, and Mr. Edgar Fawcett he
gins a story Of New York life entitled "Oliver
Deiaplaine. The magazine is fully illustrated
and lla, for a fronti>piccc an excellent portrait
of Francis Parkman.
The Romance Of !. Letter. now in the pres.
Of ID. Iothrop Company, is Il story partly ioca-
ted in Boston which introduces many familiar
features. The plot i original and ingenious.
The heroine in her determination to fulfil the
promise made & dead friend, meets with uncX-
pcctcd difficulties. but brayely accompli>le;-
her purpose. The >now-bound train in the far
West is a piec" of realistic drawing; and the
night at Mt. Washington will bring pleasant re-
collections to many mountain visitors. Read
er> will lie divided As to the attractions of the
two lovers, 50 strongly contraStei; but the de-
Houcment is satisfactory.
The numbers of Tie Living Ace for April
2nd and Gth contain Naucrat> and the Greeks
in Ancient Egypt Quarterly; Valentine Nis-
cont. and The Present Position OF European
Politics, Fortni9htly; The Trials of a Country
Par>on. Nineteenth Century The Military From
tier Of France, National; Jubilee Years. and
An t'ninentional Trip to North Benini.
hammers Journal: Peru@ia, Macmillan's; A
Terrible Night, Murray'>; 4 Brush with Chin
the Earthquake, and The Fawcett Memorial
saturday review: The Suilerin"s OF the Cler-
~, and An old French House. Spectator; The
Burial Of the Jews of SptaliieldS, Pail Mall
Gazette; -noW-storm> OH the Hills, st. James
Gazette: Sudden Changes OF Temperature,
Medical Press; with instruments of "A Secret
lnlcritance,' and ''Riehard Gable, the Light
shlpmall, and poetry.
The Last Penacook, y Tale Of Provincial
Lille. by Abicl b. Berry, is a pleasant little
story that takes the reader back to the early
days OF the country, Just before the war OF the
Revolution. Most OF the Indian tribes had
been dispersed, though here and there scattered
repre- -entative> of them hung around the settle
mcnt>, or wandered through the vast stretches
OF forest. hunting an! fishing, loath to leave
tie hunting grounds Of their fathers. One of
these Sa>age>, a member of the once powerful
tribe Of the fcnacook>, plays prominent part
i'll the story, and gives il its name. The main
interest Of the story hinges on the stealing of
child. the heir 10 a large property. and her
discovery wears afterward. when She is for the
second time abducted and concealed on one of
the small Islands in Lake Winnepesaukec. Her
hiding place is found by Catamoun, The last
of the PenacookS," ami with her restoration to
her friends comes the unmasking Of the plot.
and the revelation Of her real name and rights
\ number OF historical characters are intro
'luced, the principal! being Governor JchA
" entwoith. the younger, Of Portsmouth. \.
IL. The story is full of interest from the first
chapter to the last, and is well illustrated.
Price 81. u. Lothrop Co., Boston.
Natural Law in the Business World is the
title OF new book on political economy bv
Mr.. Henry Wood. The author has written q.
modest preface. in which he makes no claims
to original discovery, his aim being to apply
certainly succeeded in producing useful man.
ual circumstances" Mr.. Wood says, "may
han"e but principles never" This is the key
note of his work. The ills of our social
~ystem. he says elsewhere. ''thc hard>iipS of
labor and the inequalities of fortune cannot be
got rid OF 10y any short cut route OF social
revolution or industrial transformation" From
this it may be inferred that Mr.. Wood is IN
friendly to the new aspirations OF the working
man. but he makes haste to dctiGc his position
Oh that point As follows
I'm regard to the labor question, the writer
VIII yield to no one in respect to his sympathy
for and interest in the aboring man. but he
looks for his Improvement and elevation in an
entirely different direction from the majority
Of those who claim 10 especially champion his
cause. There can be no active antagoni>m be-
tween different wheels of the same machine
without disastrous results to all. The true
Ideal of society is a complete and rounded uni
~, but this unity is made up of variety. Like
the different parts of Il vast mechanism, this
variety must be harmonious.
1.-The plain words of this book are in no sense
directed against labor, but only against, the
~ 80 VIZ .l't a. -lu'id uc tiueI us
banner Class prejudice. 20 persistently slim
ulated by some agitatof.. is disastrous to BUSH
ness confidence and prosperity. Demand for
labor and products cannot be coerccd, but har-
mony will stimulate and increase it. Our OBJ
Ject III this work is to promote the interest of
society: We endcavor TO point out the natural
ana SOLID highway 70 success, through indus
Try, merit and economy, and how to avoid the
treacherous quagmrcs of antagonism, coercion
and tyranny, which end in business staynation
and idleness. The conclusions arrived at are
not mere matters of choice, but the logical re-
suit of unchanging natural principlcs.''
The sixteen pages that follow these state
ments deal with general principles, supply and
demand, labor, laborers and production. social
ism. dependence and poverty, corporations and
their abuses, the unequal distribution of wealth,
the Capitalization of business, and-this being
the most interesting and instructive part Of the
volume-thc alterations of prosperity and de-